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O’Duffy champs back in action!
BY NIALL SHERRY SPORTS EDITOR Early start for Dowling’s ladies Very Ireland Camogie League Clare vs Kilkenny TEG Cusack Park, Ennis, Sunday 19th Feb (Throw-in 12 noon) Our All-Ireland winning camogs are back in action this weekend as the Very Ireland league gets underway. Brian Dowling’s panel make the trip to Ennis to take on …
Girl Auction
BY NED EGAN Part 5 Now, we must grow older and wiser –and quickly! We must be strong – we must be as brave as your favourite heroine, Granuaile. That — or we’re done for. “I felt like doing more than cursing, down there in the dark kitchen. I did slide a few glances at …
Saint/Goddess honoured at Kilkenny well
By John Fitzgerald One of the county’s almost forgotten heritage treasures has been rediscovered. To honour St. Brigid in the month of the first national holiday in her name, pilgrims converged last week on a remote site in the countryside in Ballycallan parish where an ancient but little known holy well named after the saint …
‘Little Red Riding Hood’ pantomime in ‘Comer excelled as laughter and music was the call of the day
Words: Tom Dayton for The Kilkenny Observer Photos: Pat Shortall As the curtain came down on the Deenside Pantomime 2023, The Kilkenny Observer met with the society’s chairman Gerard ‘Chubby’ Brennan. Chubby admitted he was exhausted following the week-long run. “To be fair, it is a fair commitment, and I’m beginning to think that this …
Music on the Mall Initiative. Love Music; Love Local Talent.
MacDonagh Junction take great pride from being an important community hub. On Friday 10th February they hosted a super live music event in the mall for the launch of their brand-new initiative “Music on the Mall” which will see the Shopping Centre play songs created and performed by local artists from Carlow and Kilkenny’s music …
The Great Kilkenny Floods
By John Fitzgerald Part two – The 1926 Flood Another calamitous flood struck Kilkenny on Friday January 29th 1926. It was the biggest and worst in living memory of the time. The river Nore rose about eight feet above its normal level, wreaking havoc on the people of John’s Quay, Lower John’s Street, and Greensbridge. …
See all the doors swing open to Tradfest in Kilkenny as headline acts are announced
It will be back to the eighties and right up to the moment as some of Ireland’s longest standing trad acts and some of the newest, rising stars make up the headline acts for this year’s ten year anniversary running of Kilkenny Tradfest. Among the royalty of Irish trad and folk are Stockton’s Wing, Scullion …
On being thrown out of Trinity College!
FURTHERMORE By Gerry Moran Not many people know this but I was expelled from Trinity College Dublin. Actually I wasn’t. I couldn’t have been expelled because I wasn’t a registered student there. I was studying up the road in Earlsfort Terrace at UCD. Nor was I evicted from TCD as I didn’t reside there. Some …
The real impact of food poverty in Ireland
BY JOHN ELLIS, FINANCIAL ADVISOR The airwaves and papers are full of the hardships that people are going through especially those who have young families. Currently the Government is speaking about for all intents and purposes a mini-Budget with a new cache of helps coming down the line for those in need. It cannot come …
